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A federal judge in South Texas has temporarily blocked President Barack Obama's executive action on immigration, giving
a coalition of 26 states time to pursue a lawsuit that aims to permanently stop the orders.

The Muncie City Court judge removed from office last month abused her authority by wrongly jailing defendants and attempting
to silence critics in her courtroom, and disgraced the judiciary by using a racial slur in the streets, according to the Indiana
Supreme Court order issued Tuesday.

The Indiana Supreme Court plans to implement an evidence-based pretrial release program in Indiana, according to an order
signed by Chief Justice Loretta Rush Monday. In order to do so, a study committee will develop and implement at least one
pilot project.

Federal prosecutors in Indianapolis dropped all charges against two scientists accused of stealing trade secrets worth $55
million from Eli Lilly and Co., according to a court motion made Friday in federal court in Indianapolis.

Fifteen years after it was established by the Indiana Supreme Court, the justices have decided to retire the Judicial Technology
and Automation Committee. The decision was in one of three orders handed down by the court Thursday.

Clark Circuit Judge Jerome Jacobi must face a federal lawsuit from drug court participants who allege they were improperly
detained or unlawfully arrested as participants in the problem-solving court he oversaw.

After finding that a trial court did not err in reinstating an action after initially dismissing it with prejudice, the Indiana
Court of Appeals affirmed summary judgment in favor of Automotive Finance Corp. on its action seeking repayment of loans made
to purchase cars.

A federal judge’s ruling declaring Indiana’s ban on same-sex marriage unconstitutional doesn’t trump a clerk’s
religious convictions in one county. Elsewhere, county clerks are being instructed that it’s up to them whether they
issue licenses to gay couples.

Indiana must recognize the same-sex marriage of two women wed in Massachusetts, one of whom is gravely ill, a federal judge
ruled Thursday. The state said it will appeal the narrow but historic ruling.

Although the plaintiffs’ attorneys and the Indiana attorney general both emphasize a federal judge’s temporary
order that the state recognize the marriage of one same-sex couple is short-term and limited, the ruling has given gay marriage
proponents hope that Indiana’s marriage statute will ultimately be ruled unconstitutional.

A same-sex couple’s plea that Indiana recognize their marriage was granted Thursday by a federal judge in Evansville,
a significant ruling in one of the five separate lawsuits that are challenging the state’s ban on same-sex marriage.

The Indiana Supreme Court removed Marion Superior Judge Kimberly Brown from the bench Tuesday after finding she “engaged
in significant judicial misconduct.” The judge had been on paid suspension since Jan. 9 pending final discipline.

Before suspended Marion Superior Judge Kimberly Brown was facing possible removal from the bench for dozens of disciplinary
counts, she had difficulties in her prior court, according to recent filings arguing for the ultimate sanction against a judge.